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Glogster is proud to present Glogster.com/edu, a NEW addition to the site for all your educational needs! This is just the first step in making education and technology more engaging for educators and students!

Since its inception, FRONTLINE has never shied away from tough, controversial issues or complex stories. In an age of anchor celebrities and snappy sound bites, FRONTLINE remains committed to providing a primetime venue for engaging documentaries that fully explore and illuminate the critical issues of our times. FRONTLINE remains the only regularly scheduled long-form public affairs documentary series on American television, producing more hours of documentary programming than all the commercial networks combined.

Teachers can use an emerging technology tool, GPS receivers, and an emerging GPS-based activity, geocaching, to transform their classrooms from teacher-centered environments to exciting, empowering, exploratory environments that focus on student engagement in the learning process.

Using the Smartboard to Teach Engaging Lessons (With a 6-12 Math Emphasis)

Useful presentation and good example of Prezi.

Do you Tweet? Moodle? Blabber? Voki? Glog? Learn about 10 cool tools that can be used to engage students, develop a PLN (personal learning network), and help you to be a more efficient and effective teacher. Links provided to hundreds more.

Site to help educators make sense of the vast amounts of resources that the Internet has made available. ... help teachers to get connected and enrich their lessons thus providing rich and meaningful learning through student engagement!

Create online assignments with video and images to engage students, provide practice, and assess their speaking.

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Join educator Bill Farren as he travels through four South American countries-three of them chosen by students. Class members will get to vote on what countries their teacher/guide visits and decide on the types of activities the class embarks on. Through their guide, students will interact with local people, ask them questions, request various media, and help solve real problems-all in an engaging format: participatory learning. Who is it for? Learners from all over the world: HS students, college students, homeschoolers, unschoolers, adult learners and classroom teachers: (HS or Univ) who'd like to enrich and connect their own class to this one.

Learning Technologies Master of Science Emerging technologies are dramatically redefining the learning experience. Constant innovation continues to introduce new opportunities to enhance the delivery of teaching, training, collaboration and assessment. Education, business, and government are rapidly embracing the benefits of new learning technologies to improve student achievement, actively engage learners, manage and distribute training opportunities, facilitate collaboration and generate innovative solutions. Learning technologies have expanded beyond the use of a learning management system and web-based learning to encompass a range of technologies and opportunities.

Blog post about powerful web resources that have the power to engage students using digital tools and the desire today's youth have to express themselves, all while using the increasing amount of primary source materials available online.

Virtual field trips (VFTs) are alternatives to more costly real-world field trips. In addition to being inexpensive, they are engaging to students becasue they enable students to make connections between themselves and the wide-ranging environments they can explore virtually. They also offer authentic, inquiry-based learning experiences to students.

from eSchoolNews.com

In a broader and more educational system, blogs are about communicating. You observe your experience, reflect on it, and then write about it. Other people read your reflections, respond from their perspectives by commenting or writing their own blog article. You read their perspectives, often learn something through their eyes, and write some more. 1. Blogging is about reading and writing. 2. Literacy is about reading and writing. 3. Blogging is about literacy. (dfw)